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To: Andrew N. Cothran who wrote (245736)	4/14/2008 2:33:18 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793955

Actually, I don't find Barack Obama particularly supercilious. He just came out a liberal academic atmosphere. Is it any wonder that he sometimes talks like a liberal academic? But as someone remarked on Meet the Press last night, Obama had better remember that he's not running for Sociologist-in-Chief.

To: Andrew N. Cothran who wrote (245736)	4/14/2008 2:44:17 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793955

Obama. Who hardly knows who he is, let alone the man/woman he tries to demean. electronicintifada.net Michelle Obama and Barack Obama listen to Professor Edward Said give the keynote address at an Arab community event in Chicago, May 1998. (Photo: Ali Abunimah) What does this mean for Obama’s presidential prospects? He’s disdainful of small-town America — one might say, of bourgeois America. He’s usually good at disguising this. But in San Francisco the mask slipped. And it’s not so easy to get elected by a citizenry you patronize. And what are the grounds for his supercilious disdain? If he were a war hero, if he had a career of remarkable civic achievement or public service — then he could perhaps be excused an unattractive but in a sense understandable hauteur. But what has Barack Obama accomplished that entitles him to look down on his fellow Americans?